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Georgia Money Follows The Person (Ga MFP)

Money Follows the Person (MFP) is a rebalancing initiative that was made possible by an eleven-year grant to states from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This grant is designed to help individuals who are institutionalized in in-patient facilities like nursing facilities, hospitals and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ICF/IDD) return to their homes and communities.

The Georgia Department of Community Health implemented Money Follows the Person on September 1, 2008. Through partnerships with the Department of Human Services/Division of Aging Services, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, the Department of Community Affairs, and other state and local agencies and organizations, DCH seeks to transition 2,754 individuals from institutional setting to the community by the end of the grant in 2020.

MFP Information for Georgia Consumers

What is MFP?

Money Follows the Person (MFP) allows people in inpatient facilities (i.e. hospitals, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, nursing homes or other long-term care facilities) who are youth with mental illness, elderly or have physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities to move out and receive services to live in their own homes and communities.

What can I expect from MFP?

If you wish to participate in MFP (or refer a friend or family member to the program), contact the state MFP office at gamfp@dch.ga.gov or call 404-651-9961. An Options Counselor or Transition Coordinator will contact you to arrange a screening to determine your eligibility for MFP and to find out what you may need in order to resettle in the community. The Options Counselor or Transition Coordinator will then assist you in arranging home and community-based services through one of Georgia’s Medicaid waiver program or other Medicaid services. With assistance from the Options Counselor and Transition Coordinator, you and your family, friends, and representatives will begin planning together for what you want your life in the community to be like. When you are ready to leave the facility, the MFP program can provide you with assistance such as security and utility deposits, furnishings and basic household items, moving costs, environmental modifications to make your home or apartment accessible, connections with peer supporters and other community resources, and other additional services.

MFP Training - Webinars

MFP Overview: Training for Qualified Vendors and Service Providers (QVSP)Description: Vendors and service providers providing services to MFP participants must complete this training presentation. This training presents a brief 15 minute overview of the MFP Project, project goals, outcomes and performance benchmarks, MFP transition services and the transition planning process. Vendors and service providers must review the presentation as soon as possible before initial contact with the MFP participant. The Overview/QVSP presentation must be reviewed within 30 days of initial contact with a MFP participant. This training is required for Peer Community Supporters, PSS direct service workers doing Trial Visit PSS, Life Skills Coaches, Caregivers involved in Caregiver Outreach and Education and Home Care Ombudsman. Follow the link below to review a brief PowerPoint presentation and then complete, sign and return the presentation evaluation form to R.L. Grubbs at rgrubbs@dch.ga.gov or fax to 770-357-8857.

Description: Deskaids are quick reference guides or ‘memory joggers.’ A set of five deskaids was prepared for use by MFP field personnel to assist with recall of MFP transition processes and resources. New tools have been developed to guide field personnel in Person Centered Career Planning focused on vocational goals of participants.